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Children’s Privacy: The power and harms of Kidfluence

“Child labor” conjures images of kids working in factories or fields – and it goes far back through human history. A new paper, Play Is a Child’s Work, shows today’s tech world has its own ways of using kids for labor – in large part via social media, which has pulled kids in as influencers, whether on a small scale, or as media-savvy kidfluencers with masses of followers. Alarms have been raised about lines blurring between marketing to children, marketing by children, and recently the cultivation of them as super consumers.

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Twilio Announces Unified Profiles Powered by Segment

March 28, 2024

Twilio has announced two innovations within Twilio Flex, its digital engagement platform. The first, Unified Profiles, will be powered by Segment and allow businesses to collect and activate real-time consented data. This is the first of three launches set for 2024 that will embed Segment in Twilio Communication products. The second innovation is Agent Copilot which will allow users to deploy AI across this data to boost productivity.

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